{"id":431,"date":"2009-02-02T02:11:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T17:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=431"},"modified":"2009-02-08T23:08:56","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T14:08:56","slug":"its-the-war-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the war, stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Bonner&#8217;s daily column always contains a satisfying nugget or two. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyreckoning.com\/the-good-war\/\" target=\"_blank\">This<\/a> one in particular should be on your reading list today.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a snippet\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;\u201cBleeding America to the point of bankruptcy\u201d, was what he was up to, he said in a videotape. He even did the math. \u201cEvery dollar spent by al-Qaida in attacking the US has cost Washington $1m (\u00a3545,000) in economic fallout and military spending,\u201d said the report.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Bonner&#8217;s daily column always contains a satisfying nugget or two. This one in particular should be on your reading list today. Here&#8217;s a snippet\u2026 &#8220;\u201cBleeding America to the point of bankruptcy\u201d, was what he was up to, he said in a videotape. He even did the math. \u201cEvery dollar spent by al-Qaida in attacking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}